Teaching Fellows Get Pay Hike

Dean Dunlop announced plans yesterday to increase the salary rates for teaching fellows in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 1971.

"It's about time they raised our salary," Ronald L. Capling, teaching fellow in Philosophy, said when asked about the pay increase. "We have, over the semester, the bulk of the teaching load. We do all the teaching work and get hardly any of the money.

"This is just a drop in the bucket," he added. "Lots of teaching fellows have been complaining for years. We need lots more money than this."

Dunlop admitted that the raise was "important at a time when costs are going up for graduate education."

Junior teaching fellow's pay will increase from $5500 to $6000, while salaries of senior teaching fellows those who have taken eight full graduate courses or the equivalent-will go from $7000 to $7600.

Under Harvard rules, the 1200 teaching fellows who are presently graduate students may not teach more than three fifths-time, giving senior teaching fellows a maximum salary of $4500 and junior teaching fellows a maximum of $3600.

This increase, the third within six years, raises the full-time equivalent salary rates for senior and junior teaching fellows $2200 and $1800 respectively from what they were in 1965-66.

Starting salaries for assistant professors have jumped from $7200 in 1965-66 to the current rate of $10,000.

Commenting on last year's raise of $1000 for assistant professors, Dunlop said, "At that time we felt such an increase for the teaching fellows would be appropriate this year."

The University made no immediate comment on a connection between the $200 tuition increase, effective next Fall, and this salary increase for teaching fellows.